Word: calling
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...except general mudslinging. Picking on a statement of one who is attempting to help and really serve his fellow men, in which he states that such service is not only of value judged by the service rendered, but also by what the individual himself gets out of it, you call all such service "hypocrisy and business charlatanism"! What could be further from hypocrisy when he deliberately states that he does profit by it himself and what more unjust than to infer that he does such service only for this reason? Business charlatanism is the only approach to valuable criticism...
Your failure to call your readers' attention to the gross misrepresentations of figures adopted as a campaign expedient by one of the presidential candidates indicates that the editors of the present board are not alive. And if the editors must have their joke, why not poke a little fun at what Al Smith calls Mr. Hoover's "statistical essays"? At least, the editors will be calling attention to the fact that Harvard College is surrounded by a nation. L. O. Pratt...
Bell was the Harvard representative at the conference, to which delegates from the University of Illinois, the University of Detroit, Cornell, Carnegie Tech., Northeastern, New York University, M. I. T., Pennsylvania, and Harvard. The plans drawn up call for an organization to be allied with the National Aeronautical Association, which would make use of the latter's machinery...
Coach William Lewis of the wrestling team is sending out a preliminary call for prospective wrestling candidates...
...Mating Call. Thomas Meighan comes home from the War to a Southern village to find that Evelyn Brent, whom he left at the station the day they were married, has had the marriage annulled and tied herself to Alan Roscoe. She still likes Meighan and hangs around his farm so much that the Ku Klux Klan warns him to let married women alone. Meighan wants a wife and no jezebelling so he goes to Ellis Island and makes a deal with an immigrant girl, Renee Adoree. A subplot (Roscoe has a mistress) makes possible a climax complicated in synopsis...